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Gaddafi's Wife, Daughter Flee Libya

DEFECTIONS

According to Tunisian security forces.

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Tunisian security forces say Muammar Gaddafi’s wife, Safiya, and his daughter Aisha have fled from Libya and are currently in a refugee camp on the island of Djerba. Gaddafi’s oldest son, Muhammed Muammar, was also reported to have gone to Tunisia for “medical treatment,” while a key oil minister, Shukri Ghanem, also defected Tuesday. Safiya Gaddafi was with her husband at his Tripoli compound when an airstrike killed their youngest son, Saif al-Arab.

Read it at The Telegraph